Avoidable rings (in Ukrainian)

Employee involvement in Ukrainian companies

This paper examines the hypothesis that the introduction of Western quality standards has brought some development of employee involvement in Ukrainian manufacturing and service companies and analyses the consequences for managements’ use of the institutions of employee representation. The subject is pursued through eight case studies, four in a test and four in a control group. Quality develop...

Political patronage in Ukrainian banking∗

This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3–2005Q2. We find significant differences between politically affiliated and non-affiliated banks. The data suggest that affiliated banks have significantly lower interest rate margins and increase their capitalization. Furthermore, we show that the level of activity of affiliat...

Modeling Derivational Morphology in Ukrainian

We report on a study applying compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs) to a set of Ukrainian derivational patterns. Ukrainian is an interesting language as it is morphologically rich, and low-resource. Our study aims at resolving inconsistent results from previous studies which employed CDSMs for derivation; we provide evidence for a cross-lingual advantage of CBOW over NMF represen...

Avoidable Sets in Groups

Avoidable mortality in Lithuania.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study aimed to analyse avoidable mortality in Lithuania as an index of the quality of health care and to assess trends in avoidable mortality from 1970-90. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS All deaths of Lithuanian residents aged between 0 and 64 years between 1970 and 1990 were analysed. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Twenty seven per cent of all deaths in this age group were avo...